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Sotomayor Dissents as Court Declines Death Row Case

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, has dissented in the ...
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Trump’s death penalty push gains traction in statehouses

State lawmakers have taken up President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up ...

The Supreme Court Has a New Leading Moral Light on the Death Penalty

Not surprisingly, the conservative-dominated, pro-death-penalty majority on the Supreme Court was not interested in righting ...

Tortured to Death in Alabama

The state killed Anthony Boyd last night, and the process was anything but humane.

Sotomayor says GOP-appointed Supreme Court wing ‘abandons its duty’ in death penalty case

The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, ...
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Missouri Governor Denies Clemency as Lance Shockley Faces Execution as Supreme Court Declines to Hear

Amnesty International and human rights supporters are calling on Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe to halt the execution of Lance ...

Could a Florida death penalty case reshape how U.S. handles child sex abuse?

A recent child sex abuse case in South Florida is one of the first in the country to see a possible death sentence, raising ...

Nearly 30 years later, Miami Hurricanes linebacker's murder case returns to court

Nearly three decades after the brutal murder of University of Miami linebacker Marlin Barnes, the case is back in court as a ...

Louisiana Supreme Court reinstates AG’s authority in death row cases

The Louisiana Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling and reaffirmed the Attorney General’s authority to represent the state in post-conviction death penalty cases.